By Nnenna Ezeah

The management of Diamond Bank Plc has advised individual and corporate organizations to adopt the idea of setting aside part of their disposable income so as to enable them meet their needs and build investible funds.

The bank also stressed the need for more Nigerians to come into the banking system so as to achieve the country’s objective of financial inclusion.

Senior Adviser, Retail Banking, Diamond Bank Plc, Mr. Garry Marsh, made this call at the sideline of an interview, during the final draw for the season three of the Diamond Savings Xtra, in Lagos, at the weekend.

Marsh revealed that since the introduction of the incentive for savings account holders, about 30,000 new savings Xtra accounts are opened in the bank monthly.

Marsh said: “So across the country, we are getting 30,000 customers joining us every month.  Season three has been our best so far. We started exactly three years ago and in the first year, we made sure that everybody knows about Saving Xtra.

We gave away two huge prices then, where two people won N50 million each. Actually, this has been the best so far. So we think it is something that we must continue with, we have been getting good messages on it I think we will have a season four.”

According to Marsh, since the inception of the campaign, Diamond Bank has paid about N1 billon to its lucky account holders, saying that the financial institution will give out “more than N600 million over the next 12 months, beginning from September next year.”